GovTech (Government Technology) covers the full range of technology solutions aimed at modernizing how public services operate and how the state interacts with citizens. According to Roland Berger, a GovTech is "any technology startup with a public entity as a client". The European GovTech market is worth around 25 billion euros, a sign of how far the digital transformation of the public sector has come.
In the legal domain, GovTech shows up across several major initiatives: the digitization of court procedures (online filing portals, video-conference hearings), legal open data (free access to court decisions), online public-service platforms (such as France's Service-Public.fr and justice.fr), and the use of AI for justice (decision support, predictive analysis of litigation). In December 2025, the France Legaltech program launched by France's DGE (Directorate General for Enterprise) set out to structure and support the French ecosystem.
For lawyers and legal professionals, GovTech is both an opportunity (new advisory markets, tools for access to the law) and a monitoring challenge: reforms that move procedures online are reshaping day-to-day legal practice from the ground up. The line between GovTech and legaltech is growing increasingly blurred, with both sectors drawing on the same AI, blockchain and cloud computing technologies.